2.5 Year Update

Despite numerous colds, Matilda somehow managed to stay healthy enough that she hadn't seen her pediatrician since the last well-child check-up in March. M was highly anticipating our visit to Dr. K yesterday and did great for all the prodding and poking. Matilda always becomes so still while with Dr. K, observing her every move and soaking it all in and quietly doing whatever is asked of her for the exam. Matilda even took her flu shot like a pro, just sitting still and watching as the nurse inserted the syringe into her arm, but never cried or got upset.  It was astounding to witness.  As we left the office, M recounted it all many times and stated it hurt, but never really complained.

Current Stats for our big, tall girl:

Weight: 29 lbs; 4.2 pounds more than in March, 50 percentile weight for age. The extra weight seems most apparent to me when pushing the jogging stroller lately. 

Height: 36"; 3" taller than March, 50 percentile height for age. This means she can now ride the kiddie coaster at Disney! Her height seems to show most in the tee shirt department as they all look too short to me recently, like mid-drift shirts.  

Other random bits I want to remember about Matilda lately:

• Tim & I have clearly done a good job of providing praise and positive feedback to this kid. She is so self-congratulatory and will declare, "Good job, Matilda! Yay, Matilda!" after even the smallest achievement. She is getting really good at writing the letter M but after each one, legible or not, she will point to it and say "Perfect M!" 
• She is overly concerned with everyone's emotional state recently. She'll ask multiple times a day, "Mama's feeling happy? Daddy's feeling sad?" This has been going on for a few weeks now, but this past week it has moved beyond just Tim & I and she asks about other family and friends now at random. I am somehow always compelled to call whoever she seems to think is feeling sad, as if M has some psychic connection I need to verify. 
• Matilda started to sing this month. She has always loved music and we listen to music throughout everyday but until recently she would never singalong. It is so fun now to finally hear her little voice singing in the backseat or joining us for bedtime songs. Many of the songs she'll sing she knows in their entirety. It makes me feel like she's already a little type A perfectionist who wouldn't sing until she had it all worked out in her head. 
• Spanish has been more and more of interest to Matilda lately. Not only does she want to know more Spanish words, but she can accurately identify when someone else is speaking Spanish. The funnier part is that she will also claim someone is speaking Spanish if she hears them speaking accented English, any kind of accent. When Martin & Kamay arrived last week, speaking British English, she immediately accused Kamay of speaking Spanish.
• She still speaks in the 3rd person.  "Matilda do it by her own self" is her mantra of late.